Young astronomer Laurent V. Joli-Coeur captured a shadow cast by Jupiter. The arrows point to the faint hammer-shaped gnomon of his "Jupiterdial". The 15-year-old was the first person to photograph a shadow cast by our largest planet.

Young astronomer captures a shadow cast by Jupiter : Bad Astronomy. The hammer-shaped shadow is from his gnomon, and the light source is from Jupiter. To make sure, he rotated the rig a bit, and the shadow moved as well, indicating it was from a point source. Also, he pointed his rig well away from Jupiter and got no shadow when he took a third picture, showing it wasn’t from the glow of the night sky, either.

Hubble's Variable Nebula, taken by Edwin Hubble himself. He was given the honor of making the first observation on the 200" Hale Telescope on Mount Palomar. For nearly half a century it was the world's largest telescope. Mona Evans "Palomar Observatory" www.bellaonline.c...

The first daguerreotype of a solar eclipse, made during the total phase of the solar eclipse of July 28th, 1851 at the Royal Observatory in Kaliningrad, Russia by a local daguerreotypist named Berkowski